Brand new Zuma washes whiter Mnangagwa's return to form Dealing with a wounded tiger Good COPS, bad COPS Oddly normal II Under cover Wojciech Chodan, Pepys and Shell The gas ghost keeps haunting It's the price that counts Peace deal in shreds Drifting apart Hidden depths The stand against Mugabe Sick man, sick opposition The departed return Fighting the Fund Accidental coup Bongo for Bill Deadly diamonds Shell-shocked The fiscal fight The military imbalance Fantasy rules The $2.7 billion hole in the bank Abubakar's offer Bongo's lobby fest Enemies within World-class war Provincial power struggle Confusions in the Cape Whitehall's Africa team Diplomacy with attitude Publishing pearl Lightning strike Big Wheels Island initiative Oil-fired warfare Uneasy peace Compulsory coalition Golden parachutes Eritrea and its cousins Regional collisions It's Omar II Fernandez letter Forced to talk Muluzi's democracy test Divided republic Crisis brings opportunity Reforms, but not radical Cash call Politique a l'Americaine Number crunching Vicious voting The peace process teams The peace deal that wasn't Oceanic turnaround The opposition line-up Can the opposition fight and can it rule? It's not over yet Oddly normal Gluttons for punishment In the fog of peace Unhealthy prospects Open season on Obasanjo Gaydamak goes Cabinet crisis Biya amendment Trouble at Mills's The best elections money can buy Treading on the corn Diamond power New man, new discipline Nigeria takes on Big Oil Lake Albert and the gushers Big oil, dear oil, new oil The main points of the Abyei Protocol The real dividing line The hyperinflation club Tsvangirai's transient victory The ugly endgame Reforming the reformers Down, not out Figuring it out Gauteng for Mbeki Sitting target Butcher Shop Jollies and jets Hotel Hellacious Nightmare on Broad Street The vultures gather Addis plays its diplomatic cards The border deadlock La Françafrique est morte, vive la Françafrique The spirit moves them The ex-revolutionary front Marking ballots, selling shares Harare eyes the Kenyan model The sick man of the south Cocaine coast Goma's ghosts Inscrutable Khama King Bauxite First clean up, then list Stash the cash Moses on the mountain Down the mines Life after a game of golf Trans-Century and transcendental Second honeymoon for the money men Missing the target The road to ruin Elections within elections The people versus Biya On the brink of a deal A birthday at Beitbridge Constituency carve-ups Technical knock-out The Harambee House deal An outbreak of cordiality Lifting the bamboo curtain Bush, the farewell tour Not on parade Local is national The Wade summit Politics of the budget Putting figures on it Thunder on the left Selective divestment Mission position Party probe Bad marks Indicting Kigali The Hillary effect From Chikurubi to Blackbeach Power crisis Cleaning the stables Papers and death merchants Delays in deployment Beyond the borders Déby – caught between Paris and Khartoum Message from the wazungu The safari talks In the lion's den The real Makoni stands up Electrical and political power cuts Divided House in Cape Town Cocaine cops Wealthy sovereigns Ordinary rendition Makoni's mouth Military options The spurned advisor at State House The soldiers wait in the wings Presidents, gems and trade One Conakry, two Lansanas Economic crisis without borders Bring in the money Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs Déjà Kivu Oil and Abuja: A rockier relationship Judgment day is coming Taxing times Higher level Father and son Accounting problems Frontier market The gang's all here Handshakes at dusk Panic, what panic? 'I know the corrupt' Show time for the spooks Zuma's people on top The party is not yet split Jumping ship The heart of the matter Looking for a leader The centre versus the rest Politics and Economics in 2008 Elite and underground politics Unjust deserts in the Western Sahara From war to peace Lev Leviev lands in London Kingmakers and charlatans A slow road to travel Political hurdles ahead The Indian Ocean swells Kenya moves closer to the edge Election shockwaves spread Cross patch Mnangagwa momentum Pitching camp Bank blow With a little help from his friends Copper-clad deals At last, a possible peace Race to the top A peninsula war The oil governor under arrest See you in court Not quite indispensable 'Unstoppable tsunami' From the Muthaiga Club to the hustings Raila and Team Tinga Closer and closer Two crocodiles Koroma's Christmas present Regal rivalry The wrong report Ethiopia's options A new man in Mogadishu The Africa Forum Three men in a boat On the edges of the club Moving on Secretarial duties Mr Secretary Sharma Friendly in Kampala Mbeki to the rescue The third man or possibly - woman Zuming ahead Breaking up the party The cedi and pesewa vote Who spends, wins Sanctions sense Guerre du lac Mining undermined Animated suspension Conflict diamonds change shape Less blood on the stones Promises and lies Judges misjudged Wading in All come to the aid of the party – and fight it out The tail wags the dog The compromise candidates This time I'm going. No, really Two hotels go missing Problematic peace as the Commonwealth meets Fund furore and banking bailout New chiefs now, new policies later Scrum half Brown's boycott Digging Belinga In loco parentis The wooing of Kinshasa No borders against trouble Which rules? Whose laws? Godfathers, the sequel Raiding the camps Sam bows out again Conflict in a lakeside church His friend Bob Shooting the messenger Comprehensively breached The Mo Laureate Bond bonanza Renaissance woman Security seats Trading places The new man picks his team Take me to your traditional leader A king's ransom Zuma, Buthelezi and the Zulu nation How many states for the north? Fall out at the top Bad history Wait while we connect you Salva and the Salvation regime Wrong number again Surfing the surge Healing the rift That troublesome border A Katsina man in New York Ban Ki-moon's people Debuts on First Avenue The 'Soro ranks' A do-it-yourself peace Mining men Contract committee Contracts under review Le scandale géologique Intelligence in a divided house Zuma in the sights Exit Pikoli, Chief Prosecutor Doctor, doctor The opposition advantage Trebles all round Southern warning Kasongo v CAMEC Boots nearer to the ground Best election dirhams could buy Revolt in the desert Roots of the ONLF rebellion The Ogaden's trickling sands The banishing of Billy No holds barred Turbulent priests Signs of movement A clean sweep, maybe No ode to joy Yellowcake rebellion A turn for the worse Leaky bucket Putting the country to work Darfur deadlines Cocaine central Secretarial duties Old timers and first timers Africa moves up the agenda Mugabe's people in the provinces He keeps on winning More fighting, more aid Gas project haunts politicians A tale of two cities Unhealthy (II) Unhealthy (I) Smokescreen Neighbours undercover The race to win Who's Who in the war and peace talks Half and half Mission improbable Non-Government Who's Who Government Who's Who Ottawa rewrites the diplomatic and commercial rules Breaking the political mould Closer and more credible Doing good, not doing well Tinga's tractor in top gear Politicians overboard Boiling point Winning ways Rapture not rupture Sam the lifer Going wrong again Parties turn to the young guards Electoral arithmetic Back-biting Rumours and plots Making haste slowly No contest Personal not proportional The first-round fight The Millennium deal More blood, more cash Death of a general POST-PRESIDENTIAL MUGGING MIALA CLIPPING TAIWAN TOWER OF POWER JACQUES ET LE JUGE UNITY ON A SMALLER SCALE ELECTION FAILURE Can't pay, won't pay SOUTH AFRICA'S COMMUNISTS: THE PEOPLE A Communist manifestation - the return of the left WHITE NILE SEES RED IN THE SOUTH Salva's shuffle JUDGING THE JUDGES Justice at a price MINISTERIAL AND MUSICAL CHAIRS Everyone's in the race LONG ARMS BANK ROBBERY BROWNIE POINTS NKUNDA IN THE HILLS BOOKS ON THE BOOM TOKYO'S BUSINESS VILLAGE CYRIL THE SUIT AND HIS ASSETS The race for the presidency heats up as business joins in ECONOMICS OF THE SIEVE Politics of the sieve Good week, bad year THE GADAFFI CARAVAN MOVES ON Nkrumah's second coming Unfunny money Yellow card Francophilie Paris to Lusaka The Nile flows on Mbeki's triumph Where's the door? New team, old players Exeunt sojas All hail to the chief KIVU CLASHES AHEAD SARKO'S TEAM UNITY? WHO WITH? ALL ABOARD THE CLOCK TURNS BACK The cocaine web spreads Post-war hopes hit trouble WARRIORS BY PROXY Unlikely meeting of minds IN DENIAL, IN EXTREMIS INTELLIGENT DESIGN At the barrel of a gun Rival refugees Bienvenue à Alger Gem gumshoes Chissano tastes success Close shave Powers behind the throne Mbeki the mystery The National Islamic Front on parade The NIF goes on a charm offensive RUSSIAN ROULETTE EAT THE DOCUMENT SANCTION ACTION BLOOD CHOCOLATE THE VULCAN HAS LANDED AFRICA'S NEW DEBTORS LIFE WITHOUT JACQUES A strange alliance COSA NAMIBIA Sam and son of Sam BROWN AND THE BROWNITES From Blair to Brown TERROR COMES HOME TO ROOST Campaign confusion CHAMPAGNE IN THE DELTA The new man in Abuja NOT MY PARTY GROUNDED KABILA GETS A RIVAL THE BANK TEST Banished ballots IN THE FRONT RANKS Room at the top The troops see red THE WESTERN RESPONSE Year of the Pig - the new scramble for Africa A WOLF IN THE CONGO Dollars and mines BIG PLANS FOR POWER, ROADS AND WATER THE SHANGHAI SET Kaberuka seizes the moment Privatising politics Border blues EU exports A deal in Lomé A hard act to follow Savimbi's splitters Ethnic straitjackets Fighting talk EXIT ARKADY JUDGES SWOOP NOBLE'S DEMISE VOTE LATER, VOTE OFTEN JACOB AND THE DOG COLLAR L'Avenir c'est Sarko Vultures over Lusaka Stop thief La caravane passe au Mali A break with the past Congo-Kinshasa's cumbersome experiment Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system Africa's mission undermined Caught in the act Up for the cup A new white hope Giant steps A troubled transition Kabila's last throw Arranged marriages Tripoli calling Robbing Peter . . . Micro-state struggles Power cuts Totally elfin Alger l'Africaine Tougher talk Oiling the wheels of peace Showing who's boss French hook The past awakes Going nuclear Russian-style Pass the hat around The trials of Wolfowitz Politicians and their parties ATT seeks takokélén Mogadishu clear up The Jihadists' friend The great gamble Khalifa in court Under attack Uneasy truce in Delta State The men from the south The dealmaking begins RENDITION CONFUSION CHUKKA, NOT PUKKA AREVA IN HOT WATER GOING NUCLEAR Economy Under new management The bashing of Bemba Analysis Kabbah in a hurry Aid and votes Table Too many parties spoil the polls Yar'Adua prepares for power Jacques' jaunt Out of Africa Gerald's jeep Presidential field Too close to call U-turns, screw turns Leakey's big game Problematic peace Desert kingdom or desert republic? Our friend, the new king No jogging ADO ado Gas mask On the fringe of a war A hammer to a nut Manège à trois Old unions, new ANC Not for turning Clearly confusing Obasanjo's one hundred days Self-determination Muddy votes Moi's no-shuffle Choppy waters Chinja maitiro! Nervous tension Friends fall out Complex war, ambitious peace CONSTITUTION CLAMPDOWN CHANGEMENT DANS LA SERENITE A BLOW-UP BLOWS OVER DEADLY COLLABORATION Oil's new power A frontier affair The wealth in common Rough justice How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters Regional ructions Coming to the aid of the parties No-party politics rule Claims on Kebble's gold First murder, now money Trouble in the neighbourhood Discontent in the air Muluzi the Third The thirsty wait for water The kidnap mystery To chop or to save - the main players Can the trees be saved? All their own work The neighbours are unstable Referee in a tug-of-war Measuring the dirty money Financial secrecy Which clan is in charge now? Peacekeepers under fire Soft sell at 50 Cash and blood on the streets Beware the Ides of March Mosisili's snap victory Trade union truce Bad medicine Southern front First steps Pipe Dreams Zambia's big new investments The bitter side of the boom Mining revolt A highly political budget Chirac's last Cannes-Cannes Wade gets his way A rare soldiering success Hinga's death hits home Indictments, then elections The grudge match goes on Global prisoner Authoritarian alliances Senegal Elections 2007 SWAPO splinters China in Chambeshi Buying time Anniversary boycott Toxic traffic Shuffling the deckchairs Conté goes another round Who counts in the Darfur rebellion? The commanders confer Women in power Muluzi on the record Ethnic alarums Odinga and the Oranges Kabila's yes-men Winner takes (almost) all Cyril eyes the presidency Raining on the parade No deal for Seck Bond breakthrough Snowe white-out Minni on the rampage Guebuza and governance Upwards and onwards Ghana's gain The snubbing of Sudan How crooks still exploit the system The Addis to Mogadishu axis Two peas in a pod The strike that shook Conté Buhari's election headlines What future for the reform team? Party pieces Polls postponed Bad moon rising Strangers in the night Who said what to whom? Promised land Enter the capitalists Packaging the peacekeepers Gushing higher Breaking the line South Africa's spat How to run a continent Bailing out President Mugabe New Year election blues Tafidan's ghost Marching across the border Peace but no keepers Politics and Economics in 2007 Waiting in line Succession sagas The new frontlines The Pharoah's long adieu Old soldiers never die Generals and lawyers On the brink Candidates and rivals Annivesaries and elections Annual Conference Law wars Trade-off Crossing the river Hotel Mogadishu Crossed lines An economic fairy tale Joining the big league Washington shuffle Testing Mittal's steel Economy up, politics down Peace and security Khartoum's proxies Militias and the South The Southern front reopens Penalty shoot-out Knocking out the lion's teeth Retaliatory justice Resolution riddles Grafters' gridlock Comeback couples Atiku again Forget the politics, say advisors Powering up The President speaks Investigation down under No win, no gain Voters and protestors start to register A plan from the centre Sudan targets Chad Defining the peacekeepers The Darfur deadline passes La grande rupture The police chief, his friends and foes Help, murder, police! Carpet crossing Presidential chopper Vila Algarve Turki's landing All property is theft The established producers The new exploration grounds Digging a black hole After the results Sekibo and the drones An outsider moves up the list Breaking the arms embargo The Mujuru political network Surreal succession Banny's bonus Madonna madness Ill-judged death Missing in action Fear of flying Legal minefields Economic star, social crisis Upbeat Statisticians Beyond the Horn Commerce, cooperation and controversy The Dutch diversion Wars across borders Boots on the ground Starstruck Starcrest The next election deadline Contretemps Toxic trials Riek's battalion Kobi's refuge Signal from Saudi No man an island No EASSY rider Diamond dollars Diamonds, gold and guns Who is eligible to vote? The road to the ANC's 2007 National Conference The ANC's toughest election yet All for one, not yet The Titanic sails at dawn Brothers in Armenia The anti-corruption collapse Carole Collins Sam sues Radio row The West's weakness Jammeh tomorrow Let it walk Toxic timeline The toxic trade Cairo's costly hubris Pride and prejudice No consensus on the census Leaving it late Peace postponed Enter ex-Presidents Back in the fold Khartoum's jihadis Crying Wolfowitz One of us cannot be wrong Déby supreme, for now Ambitions in the north Pots, kettles and corruption Easy for Jammeh A bull in China's shop Gosh again Biya goes on and on Dubious coup Mbeki's diplomatic team New powers, new policy Heading north Mission Mogadishu A threat to the Horn and beyond The forces in Darfur's war Presidential hopefuls take to the road Countdown for Conté Explosive results Troubled talks Sam and the successors The real rebels Cabinda dreaming Starter's orders Zapping the zeroes A political resurrection Undercurrent Bredenkamp busted Democratic deficits Levy and King Cobra Budget bludgeon Flirting with the enemy After Darfur's deal Courts without authority Two elections, one country Khartoum's veto Challengers step up Snow white The governor's dues Up close and personal Front-runners and hopefuls A new political season Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North Opening broadside Pause in St Petersburg Charles Janson Unhappy returns Time's up Zanzibar: the islands are quiet for now Zero tolerance, so far New Luanda's gleaming towers Beijing's embrace Beijing's touring team